August 9th, 2017

At the July meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6E, the commissioners took another vote on a revised Cloakroom settlement agreement before the establishment met with the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA) to discuss a liquor license change. The commissioners also updated the status of a vacant 6E seat.

A new development threatens to derail the always tenuous tranquility of the Eastern Market’s vending community. Market Manager Barry Margeson lobbed a small grenade into the monthly meeting of the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee (EMCAC) which met on June 28 in the North Hall. Vice Chair Chuck Burger presided over this early summer meeting in the absence of Chair Donna Scheeder.

Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Board matters dominated the commission’s July meeting as establishments at The Wharf came to ask support for their applications and approval for community agreements negotiated by the ABC Subcommittee led by Dr. Coralie Farlee.

Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Stadium opened in 1961 and has been the home for numerous events as well as the District’s major league baseball, football and, currently, the DC United soccer team. But DC United is expected to move to their new stadium in Buzzard Point next year.

The time seems opportune for change, and the community has long been eager for the nearly 80 acres of parking lot that surrounds the outdated building to be converted into green or recreational fields.

The discussion at the July meeting of the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee (EMCAC) confirmed that there is an urgent, time sensitive need to have a public meeting to discuss the status of 7th Street SE, especially the portion between C Street and Pennsylvania Avenue SE. The sense of the committee is that this needs to happen as soon as possible. After polling EMCAC members it was not possible to find a time when there would be a quorum of EMCAC.

This notice of an urgent open meeting of the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee (EMCAC) Executive was received from EMCAC Chair Donna Scheeder and has been reproduced with minor edits for style.

Concert by "The Band of the Nation's Capital" is Part of Annual Summer Concert Series

By

Elizabeth O'Gorek

The District of Columbia National Guard’s 257th Army Band will perform in Lincoln Park at 7 p.m. Wednesday August 9. The concert is part of the Concert in the Park annual summer concert series inaugurated last year. Performances in the series take place at various national capital region venues.